King James Version
Leviticus 13:47 in the King James Version says “The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;” — study this verse from Leviticus chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;”
Leviticus 13:47 · KJV
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin; thing: Heb. work of
And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest: thing: Heb. vessel, or, instrument
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“also that the plague”
H5061a blow (figuratively, infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress)
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